backing musician

collocation in English

meaningsofbackingandmusician

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backing
noun
uk
/ˈbæk.ɪŋ/us
/ˈbæk.ɪŋ/
support, especially money, that someone gives to a person ...
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musician
noun[C]
uk
/mjuːˈzɪʃ.ən/us
/mjuːˈzɪʃ.ən/
someone who is skilled in playing music, usually as ...
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(Definition ofbackingandmusicianfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He was also the primarybackingmusician, providing backing vocals, keyboards and guitar.
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Comstock continued to perform on such tours, both with his own band and as abackingmusician, until the late 1990s.
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He was also a session andbackingmusicianfor a range of artists.
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The album was not a commercial success and has become more notable for its array of well-known backing musicians than for the songs themselves.
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They performed without any backing musicians and played all the instruments themselves.
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He is known for his particularly aggressive spoken word delivery, and often performs with hand drums or other backing musicians.
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They subsequently added various backing musicians, usually a bassist, keyboardist, and beatboxer.
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Through numerous personnel changes, the backing musicians have totalled 26 persons.
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The lineup still consisted of the five original singers plus the five backing musicians, with the two acts signed to different labels and marketed as performing different types of funk.
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Collins used no backing musicians, and he performed all the vocal and instrumental parts at his home studio, and used rough vocal takes for the final product.
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